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Came across this today here: http://trashpile.net/upload/white%20whale.png

I've tried to find out where it came from originally but can't seem to find any reference to its creator. Entertaining though :)

White whale

What do you love about where you live?
Submitted by Emu with a Clue.

I love the fact that I'm in the middle of nowhere. Very peaceful and quiet. Lots of space, and cheap!

Here's a photo taken from the back of our house nearing dusk. All we have to see is a lot of fields, which is nice.

View from our house

This had me laughing uncontrollably. Brilliant stuff..

I have to say that I found this very amusing..

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I found it here: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2008/04/11/5009

However they don't seem to know where it came from originally!

You may or may not care about this, but as a designer this is definitely important to me.

Taken from http://www.email-standards.org/gmail-appeal

By the way, my ugly mug is the very last one in the video.

Bertie

Huzzah! Bertie Ahern, head of the Irish government, has resigned. He's a crook, and should never have lasted as long in power as he did.

You can watch RTE's news reports about it here: http://www.rte.ie/live/

I found his brother's comment amusing, on being asked what he thought of Bertie's decision to resign:

He's usually right in the decisions he makes

Show us something you're allegic to.

This is the only thing I'm aware of - the problem is that it's really small and I can't avoid it when it's around...

Pollen

In honor of Johnny Appleseed Day, show us a tree.

Trees along Glendalough Lake

PicLens Screen Shot

Well, it might not be king, based on how much usage I get from it, but PicLens is definitely a beauty to play around with, and it's functional too.

I've written a full write-up on my business blog, so I won't repeat it verbatim here, but if you're interested in my ramblings, check out:

http://www.pixelapes.com/2008/03/11/pic-lens-best-browser-extension/

Otherwise, just go to Mozilla's site and install the extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/5579

Obviously, you're going to need Firefox as your web browser to test this out - but why would you use anything else!

Whilst it feels a little strange blogging about Word Press on one of Six Apart's blogging tools (especially given Anil Dash's reasonably nasty competitive post about Word Press), I don't feel disinclined to mention it.

I love Word Press. I've been using it heavily for all manner of projects over the past few years for all manner of clients of ours over at Pixelapes Web Design. It's been an excellent learning experience and I've found out how to bend Word Press to all sorts of applications.

Apparently Word Press 2.5 was due out yesterday, with a large amount of the update being focussed on a complete redesign of the admin area. Unfortunately the tentative date hasn't come through so I'm left waiting a little longer. I'm hopeful it will be soon as I'm really quite excited about this update and think it will make a big difference to my usage of Word Press.

Roll on Word Press!